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On Tuesday, April 9, 2019 in INRA of Orléans – centre Val de Loire, took place the first EcoAF workshop, using in-class learning or by Skype using screen sharing. Agroforestry counsellors, farmers, students or researchers were part of these volunteers. EcoAF is in charge of personalized simulation of agroforestry parcels so far, allowing tree lines to be drawn and 3D-visualized in a farm or even at slightly larger scale. The tree-growing & economical parts are under construction, and will integrate some knowledge from other CAPSIS modules, as Economics. fs-29.4.2019

Frédérique Santi (INRA BioforA, Orléans) came for two visits last 19-21 March and 2-4 April to finish the Ecoaf prototype to be presented on Tuesday, 9 April to a group of users in Orléans to show them the software and get their feedback for the next developments. fc-10.4.2019

The CAQSIS 2019 meeting was held at the IRSTEA Recover research unit in Aix en Provence, thanks to the local organizers Bernard Prevosto and Manon Helluy, 40 scientists from France, Portugal, Belgium and New Zealand attended it, they could hear 23 scientific presentations, the presentations will be available soon. fc-28.3.2019

Benoit Courbaud (IRSTEA Grenoble) spent 3 days in AMAP to add in Samsara2: dead wood in the simulation at inventory load time and a new intervention simulating a wind disturbance. fc-13.3.2019

Sylvie Muratorio (INRA URFM, Avignon) came 2 days to work on the generalization of the Luberon2-Metatrom connection (F. Lefèvre, Claire Godineau, INRA URFM, Leopoldo Sanchez, INRA AGPF, Orleans) to her PhysioDemoGenetics module. fc-11.3.2019

Maude Toïgo (CNRS-CEFE, Montpellier) came one day to AMAP to work on the creation of a thinning tool for the Forceeps model. nb-1.3.2019

Frédérique Santi (INRA BioforA, Orléans) came one week to AMAP to work on Ecoaf, which can now read parcels in ESRI Shape File format exported from the Telepac application (Ministère de l'Agriculture et de l'Alimentation) by Christophe Sotteau (AGRO-ECO Expert). fc-25.2.2019

A Capsis training course took place in Montpellier on 31 January and 1st February 2019, 7 persons attended it. nb-2.2.2019

Christine Deleuze (ONF RDI, Dole) built the Capsis-ONF-2018 installer. This installer is updated every year, it contains 24 growth models which are made available with the agreement of their authors to the french National Forest Office experts. fc-30.1.2019

The CAQSIS 2019 meeting will take place next 26-28 March in Aix-en-Provence, hosted by IRSTEA. The call for contribution is open. fc-28.1.2019

Xavier Morin (CNRS-CEFE) came 3 days in AMAP to work on Forceeps: added an alternative way to consider trees competition by taking their crown length into account. fc-28.1.2019

Frédérique Santi (INRA BioforA, Orléans) spent an other 4 days Ecoaf working session in AMAP last 11-14 December, with a visit of Fabien Liagre (Agroof Anduze), focus was made on the parcel borders edges. fc-18.12.2018

The next Capsis training course for people about to program models in the platform will be held next 31.01-1.02.2019 in Montpellier, interested modellers may contact us. fc-7.12.2018

A 2 days working session was carried out with Sylvie Muratorio (INRA URFM) to link the PDG / PhysioDemoGenetics model with the phenofit / fit2018 phenology library by Isabelle Chuine (CNRS CEFE). fc-7.12.2018

Frédérique Santi (INRA BioforA, Orléans) came to AMAP last 26-30 November to work on Ecoaf with also Fabien Liagre (Agroof Anduze) on Wednesday and Thursday, a feature has been started to plant hedges on the parcels borders. fc-3.12.2018

Manon Helluy (IRSTEA UR RECOVER, Aix-en-Provence) came 4 days to AMAP to work on the RReShar model: worked on the water process (changed the initialization of calculations, water process is now forest-type dependent, soil water characteristics are now defined in soil layers instead of cells, called water process before trees growth process), created some exports, modified the format of inventories files and did some improvements (graphical user interface, fixed bugs, some cleaning). nb-12.11.2018

Frédérique Santi (INRA BioforA, Orléans) and Christope Sotteau (AGRO-ECO Expert) came back one week to AMAP to go on working on EcoAF, a 3D editor has been designed to set up tree lines and vegetation strips on agricultiral parcels with the help and expertise of Fabien Liagre and Antoine Marin (Agroof Anduze). fc-15.10.2018

A refactoring of capsis.lib.phenofit by Isabelle Chuine (CNRS CEFE) was conducted this fall to better organise the phenology data in memory and automatise the activation and daily run of the plants development phases. This capsis.lib.phenofit.fit2018 variant was connected to CastaneaOnly (Hendrik Davi, INRA URFM) by F. de Coligny and Valentin Journé (INRA URFM). fc-1.10.2018

Valentin Journé (INRA URFM Avignon) came 2 days to work on phenology in the Castanea library, flowering and fructicication functions from Phenofit were adapted, pollen functions was added. fc-7.9.2018

A major review of the Capsis extension framework was conducted by Nicolas Beudez this summer to simplify and clarify the system. If related problems arise in extensions (intervention tools, graphs, file formats…), they will be addressed in priority. Extra work is still needed. fc-7.9.2018

New features have been added in the table popup menus: it is now possible to change the table header with the texts in a chosen line, or to plot a given column of numeric values. These features are available on most tables, in particular in the floating table, see the screenshots section. fc-2.7.2018

Hendrik Davi (INRA URFM Avignon) spent 2 days in AMAP to reorganize the phenology of the castaneaonly model and in particular review the evergreen trees section. fc-23.6.2018

During June 11-15 week, we had Frédérique Santi and Tina Meziani (INRA BioforA, Orléans) who came to progress on the EcoAF project (Doubled trees plantation and management, tree growth models, mortality, parcels dressers in the inventory file, simulated data export), and also Claire Godineau (INRA URFM, Avignon) to work on Luberon2 (genotypes generation, growth, interventions, charts) in order to prepare the 3 meetings with the members of the IGS project, next June 20 and 21 in Avignon, and next July 5 in Paris. fc-18.6.2018

Claire Godineau (INRA URFM, Avignon) came 3 more days to work on the Luberon2-Metatrom connection. Metatrom input and output files are now correctly written and read by Capsis-Luberon2, interpretation still under progress. fc - 31.5.2018

Claire Godineau (INRA URFM, Avignon) came 2 days in AMAP to work on the connection of Luberon2 to a Fortran based genotype generator software based on the Metatrom software by Leopoldo Sanchez (INRA BioForA, Orléans), adapted with Sylvie Muratorio (INRA URFM, Avignon) for the IGS project (“Assessment of the genetic impacts of adaptation-oriented sylviculture practices”), and the reading of a new version of the inventory files. fc-22.5.2018

The Caqsis-2018 meeting was held in Clermont-Ferrand last 27-29 March, hosted by the PIAF laboratory. 43 people attended the meeting and 27 presentations were given. This year, we had a special session by 3 people from Québec, including Hugues Power, invited speaker from the 'Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs'. fc-30.3.2018

Hendrik Davi (INRA Avignon) came one day to AMAP to add an integrated thinning procedure and an optional variables part in the inventory file format in CastaneaOnly. fc-25.3.2018

A new feature has been added by Nicolas Beudez in Capsis to freeze libraries to make some models rely on stable versions while the libraries keep on being developed. Heterofor and Dynaclim have been redirected to the frozen castanea2018march library. fc-25.3.2018

Emmanuel Duchateau (UQAR Rimouski, Québec) visited AMAP for a week to work in PlantaBSL on a method for non merchantable trees addition at simulation start time, and another method to spatialize the trees of an inventory with several species but without their locations. fc-19.3.2018

Benoit Courbaud (IRSTEA Grenoble) came back for 3 more days in AMAP to tune an optimisation algorithm with Gilles Le Moguedec for his weight thinner when distances between trees are considered. The new intervener is now available. fc-9.3.2018

The CAQSIS 2018 meeting will be hosted by the INRA PIAF laboratory in Clermont-Ferrand next 27-29 March, 43 people registered and 27 presentations are expected. fc-5.3.2018

A Capsis training course took place in Montpellier on 13-14 February 2018, 7 persons attended it. fc-15.2.2018

Benoit Courbaud (IRSTEA Grenoble) spent three days in AMAP to build a new intervention tool for Samsara2, based on focal trees and weights related to trees relative position and main sizes. See the related screenshot. fc-29.1.2018

Xavier Morin and Brieuc Cornet (CNRS CEFE) came for a short visit in AMAP to make the Forceeps model compatible with some standard intervention tools, including the Thinning diagram. fc-14.12.2017

Claire Godineau (INRA URFM) came 1 day in AMAP to reorganize the calls to growth and regeneration processes of the Luberon2 model. nb-13.12.2017

Benoit Courbaud (IRSTEA Grenoble) spent 3 days in AMAP to work on Samsara2, especially on a script mixing climate and management strategies, and on understorey vegetation specific richness by ecological groups outputs. fc-10.8.2017

Frédéric André (UCL ELI-e, Louvain, Belgium) came to AMAP for a week to work on Heterofor: maintenance respiration, fine resolution radiative balance and SamsaraLight parallelisation in Legacy and Tag mode. fc-4.8.2017

Claire Godineau (INRA URFM) came 3 days in AMAP to create the Luberon2 model in the context of the RMT-IGS project: “Assessment of the genetic impacts of adaptation-oriented sylviculture practices”. nb-27.07.2017

Sylvie Muratorio (INRA URFM) came 2 days to add a GeneticMemory system in the Genetics library to enhance the compatibility of the library with the specific memory mode in the PhysioDemoGenetics module and more generally with the optional memorizers in Capsis. fc-24.5.2017

Frédéric André (UCL ELI-e, Louvain, Belgium) spent a week in AMAP to add Phenology functions in Heterofor and the new fine resolution mode in the SamsaraLight radiative balance library. It is now possible to tag additional beams to get finer results around specific dates of interest, e.g. bud burst date, leaves senescence dates… fc-24.5.2017

Isabelle Chuine (CNRS-CEFE) came two days in AMAP to work on details regarding the connection Phenofit5 - Phelib library. fc-24.5.2017

Benoit Courbaud (IRSTEA Grenoble) spent 3 days in Montpellier to work together on Samsara2 (regeneration, charts, inventory files…). fc-24.5.2017

Frédéric André and Louis de Wergifosse (UCL ELI-e, Louvain, Belgium) came to AMAP for a week to work on Heterofor, particularly heat in the soil and a more detailed mode in the SamsaraLight radiative balance library. fc-3.5.2017

Sylvie Muratorio (INRA URFM) came two days to work on a refactoring and review of the PDG model in Capsis. fc-24.4.2017

Hendrik Davi and Valentin Journé (INRA URFM) came to AMAP to work on the connection between the Castanea model and the Phelib phenology library by Isabelle Chuine (CNRS CEFE). The connection is up and running. fc-19.4.2017

Florian Delerue (Bordeaux-INP, ENSEGID) spent a week in AMAP to work on the dynamics of his Woudyfor model. A focus was made on the plantation patterns and their effect on the shrub management and dynamics. fc-24.3.2017

The connection of Phenofit5 with the Phelib phenology library by Isabelle Chuine and Gauthier Boaglio (CNRS-CEFE) was performed last 13-16 March. Phenofit5 can now rely either on the Pheno5 library previously integrated in Capsis, or on the more flexible Phelib library supported by Inaki Garcia, Olivier Maury and David Delannoy (INRA Agroclim Avignon). fc-20.3.2017

The CAQSIS 2017 meeting will take place in Bordeaux next 28-30 March, hosted by the FCBA. The schedule contains 24 contributions. fc-16.3.2017

Louis de Wergifosse (UCL, Belgium) spent 3 days in AMAP to add a phenology module in the Heterofor model. nb-25.01.2017

A Capsis training course was organised by the INRA Avignon URFM research unit on 17-18 January, with 7 attendants. It was followed on 19-20 by training and working sessions for the connection of the Heterofor model by Mathieu Jonard (UCL, Belgium) with Hendrik Davi's Castanea library. Frédéric André and Louis de Wergifosse (UCL) attended these sessions. fc-23.1.2017

Benoit Courbaud (IRSTEA Grenoble) came 3 days in Montpellier to add exporting features and more versatile charts and displays in his Samsara2 model. fc-23.1.2017

Hendrik Davi (INRA, UMR URFM) spent 1 day in AMAP to work on the PhysioDemoGenetics model : added an linking option to the SamsaraLight radiative balance, tried to improve execution time. nb-19.12.2016

Mathieu Jonard (UCL ELI-e, Louvain, Belgium) spent one week to work on the Heterofor model : fixed some bugs, refactored and added some exports, worked on the mortality process, tuned nutrient limitation. nb-12.12.2016

Hendrik Davi (INRA, UMR URFM) spent 2 days in AMAP to add three phenology functions in the CastaneaOnly and PhysioDemoGenetics models. nb-29.11.2016

Robert Schneider (UQAR, Québec) spent 3 days in AMAP to improve the PlantaBSL model : added a commercial thinning, added the possibility to use a reproducible mode (for thinning, mortality and recruitment), refactoring. nb-25.11.2016

Nicolas Donès (INRA, UMR PIAF, Clermont-Ferrand) spent 3 days in AMAP to work on the refactoring of the Regeneration library and the RReShar model : naming, moved some classes and methods from RReShar model to the Regeneration library, added some examples in the Regeneration library. nb-21.11.2016

Francois de Coligny spent a week in Louvain la Neuve (Belgium) to work on the Heterofor project with Mathieu Jonard and Louis de Wergifosse, they focussed on the water balance. fc-20.10.2016

Nicolas Beudez (INRA AMAP) joined the lab and the Capsis project as a permanent developer. We now have a better development team to help and support the modellers of the capsis project. fc-5.10.2016

Benoit Courbaud (Irstea Grenoble) spent 3 days in AMAP to work on Samsara2: new cumulative histograms and cumulative areas charts, preparing the Samsara2 - RReShar connection with Philippe Balandier and Nicolas Donès (planned for mid-November). fc-26.9.2016

Teresa Fonseca (UTAD, Vila Real, Portugal) stayed one week in AMAP to work with Gilles Le Moguedec and to link her ModisOptimizer tool to the Economics module by P. Cailly (FCBA Bordeaux), C. Deleuze and H. Rakotoarison (ONF RDI). The optimisation tool now can run simulations to find the scenario with the best net present value. fc-16.9.2016

Mathieu Jonard and Louis de Wergifosse (UCL ELI-e, Louvain, Belgium) spent one week in Montpellier to work on the Heterofor model, they completed the connection work to PhreeqC (soil chemistry) and added a water balance submodel. fc-12.9.2016

Capsis now officially relies on Java 1.8 (aka Java 8), you may have a look at this helper message if you need to switch. fc-26.7.2016

Francois de Coligny spent 3 weeks in Québec to attend the WoodQC2016 conference organised by University Laval (coord. Alexis Achim). He stayed in Québec city one week before the conference to work with Isabelle Auger, Hugues Power, Filip Havreljuk, Francois Guillemette and Charles Ward at the Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs / Direction de la Recherche Forestière. He spent finally one week more in Rimouski to work at UQAR with Robert Schneider, Tony Franceschini and Emmanuel Duchateau. fc-20.6.2016

Mathieu Jonard (UCL ELI-e, Louvain, Belgium) spent another week in Montpellier to work together on the soil chemistry part of Heterofor. fc-23.5.2016

The CAQSIS-2016 meeting took place in Montpellier last 5-7 April. This year, the meeting was hosted by the CEFE (Xavier Morin). Robert Schneider (UQAR, Québec) was invited to attend the meeting and present a contribution. A visit was organised by the CEFE to their experimentation site of Puechabon. The presentations are available online. fc-11.4.2016

Benoit Courbaud (Irstea Grenoble) stayed 2 days in AMAP to add features in his Samsara2 model, regarding thinning strategies for several species and harvesting dead trees. fc-8.3.2016

Mathieu Jonard (UCL ELI-e, Louvain, Belgium) came a week to AMAP to work on the trees nutrient compartments in his model Heterofor. fc-7.3.2016

INRA offers a permament position for an engineer to work on the Capsis project, see the INRA web site and this direct link to the proposed profile, deadline is 17 March 2016.fc-17.2.2016

Christine Deleuze (ONF RDI) created the Capsis-ONF-2015 installer for ONF internal distribution (annual update). This release contains 24 forest dynamics models made available by their authors for use by the ONF experts. fc-15.2.2016

A Capsis training session took place in Montpellier last 9-10 February, 6 students from Avignon and Montpellier attended this meeting. fc-10.2.2016

Priscilla Cailly spent 2 days in AMAP to finalize the work on the FCBA models in Capsis. fc-20.1.2016

Francois de Coligny was invited in Bordeaux last 11-14 January to work on the SilmarS model with Priscilla Cailly (FCBA), Céline Meredieu and Thierry Labbé (INRA Biogeco). fc-18.1.2016

The porting in Capsis of the FCBA models for Spruce and Douglas fir is now complete. Priscilla Cailly (FCBA, Bordeaux) came to AMAP for a working stage of one week to work on the last developments and check the results against the former FCBA Oasis software. fc-7.11.2015

Mathieu Jonard (UCL ELI-e, Louvain, Belgium) spent a week in AMAP to connect his forest growth model Heterofor with the geochemical reaction model Phreeqc (USGS, USA). The technical parts are now ok, still work to be done for the models connection. fc-31.10.2015

Capsis 4.2.4 is available, with a new Graph system. See the Screenshots page for a preview. fc-16.10.2015

Work on the SilmarS model has started on 14 October 2015: a skeleton has been built for the new module in Capsis. This new Maritime pine growth model is developed jointly by INRA (C. Meredieu, T. Labbé) and FCBA (P. Cailly) in the context of the “Groupe Pin Maritime du Futur” in the Aquitaine region. fc-15.10.2015

Robert Schneider (UQAR Rimouski, Québec) came back for a short visit to AMAP. During his stay, PlantaBSL was updated: a new mortality model, few more diagrams and thinning tools. The Generic Thinning diagram was made compatible and a specific tool was built to allow clicking on trees to cut them. fc-2.10.2015

Teresa Fonseca (UTAD, Vila Real, Portugal) visited AMAP for a week. She took contacts with Minna Pulkkinen and Christine Deleuze concerning Douglas fir and she started a work with Gilles Le Moguedec to run optimisation scenarios with the ModisPinaster model in Capsis. fc-21.9.2015

Robert Schneider (UQAR Rimouski, Québec) spent a week in Montpellier to add the PlantaBSL model in Capsis. fc-26.6.2015

Ruben Manso (INRA Lerfob, Nancy) came to Montpellier for a Capsis training and to add a thinning sub model in the Mathilde model he develops with Mathieu Fortin (AgroParisTech Lerfob, Nancy). fc-15.6.2015

Priscilla Cailly (FCBA, Bordeaux) spent a week in Montpellier to work on the integration of the FCBA Spruce and Douglas models in Capsis. fc-15.6.2015

The Phenofit model predicting species distribution at large scales has been ported from Delphi to Capsis by Isabelle Chuine and Yassine Motie (CNRS-CEFE, Montpellier) since the beginning of 2015. Phenofit 4 is currently being checked and the development of Phenofit 5, dealing with several species, is still under progress. fc-15.6.2015

Francois de Coligny was invited last April to spend a week at the University of Louvain la Neuve (Belgium) to work with Mathieu Jonard (UCL ELI-e) on the Heterofor model. fc-15.6.2015

The CAQSIS-2015 annual meeting, joining the members of the INRA CAQ (“Croissance Amélioration Qualité”) and Capsis networks, took place at AgroParisTech in Nancy last April 7-9, see the schedule (fr). The presentations are now available. fc-18.5.2015

Alexis Achim (Université Laval, Canada) visited for a short period to integrate simulations of stem properties within Capsis. The new tool named QuEST Stem Viewer can currently be run for Black spruce using the Artemis growth model. Additional species and connections to other growth model will follow. aa - 10.12.2014

Nate Osborne (Oregon State University, USA) stayed in Montpellier for 4 days to integrate a simplified version of the Organon growth model into Capsis. This release takes inputs and calculates results in the metric system. It is free software and will now be distributed with the Capsis web installer on the download page. Check the project page for more details. fc+no - 12.9.2014

An internal mobility position for a software engineer is opened on the Capsis project. This position is opened to all engineers (Ingénieur d'Etudes) of the french public administration. Deadline for candidating: 3 July 2014. fc - 27.5.2014

Capsis now officially relies on Java 1.7 (also called Java 7), you may check the documentation pages for more details. fc - 27.5.2014

Teresa Fonseca (UTAD, Vila Real, Portugal) spent few days again in AMAP to work on the Modis Pinaster model. Stocking management and several new outputs were added. (fc - 26.5.2014)

A recent upgrade of SSL on the amap-dev.cirad.fr server, hosting the Capsis and AMAPstudio projects, may prevent the modellers to reconnect to the SVN server for an 'update' or 'commit' from their local copies. A step by step documentation explains how to resolve these problems with SmartSVN 8 (needs a modeller level login). (fc - 21.5.2014)

The CAQSIS-2014 meeting, joining the members of the CAQ network and Capsis platform, took place at the University of Liège, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech campus, Belgium last April 8-10. Around 40 people attended the meeting (fr). (fc - 14.4.2014)

The next Capsis training session will take place in Montpellier next 1-2 April 2014. (fc - 21.3.2014)

Nicolas Donès (INRA PIAF, Clermont Ferrand) came to Montpellier in February for the OpenFluid training session and could work on a 2 days review on the Capsis-RReShar model by Philippe Balandier. (fc - 20.3.2014)

Florian Delerue (UMR BioGeCo, Université de Bordeaux) came to AMAP for a whole week work session on his Woudyfor model. The Pine trees light effect has been added, the forestry management effects are now considered, the common gorse dynamics processes have been updated and reviewed. (fc - 29.1.2014)

Francois de Coligny was invited on 17th October 2013 at the Faculty of Forest Science and Forest Ecology of the University of Goettingen (Germany) to present the Capsis project at the colloquium “Forest Biometrics and Computer Science”. Thierry Fourcaud was also invited to present AMAP's tree architecture modelling works at this special occasion of the 70th birthday of Prof. Branislav Sloboda. (fc - 21.10.2013)

Capsis and AMAPstudio have been presented at the IUFRO 5.01.04 – Wood quality modelling international conference MeMoWood, in Nancy 1-4 October 2013. The presentation is available here. (fc - 9.10.2013)

Francois de Coligny was invited to present Capsis and AMAPstudio at the international summer school “Modelling of Ecosystems by Tools from Computer Sciences” co-organised at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague (Czech Republic) on 16-20 September 2013 by Profs. Winfried Kurth and Branislav Sloboda (University of Goettingen, Germany) and Prof. Marek Fabrika (Technical University of Zvolen, Slovakia), and coupled with the 6th meeting of the developers and users of GroIMP. (fc - 23.9.2013)

Barry Gardiner, Kana Kamimura, Céline Meredieu and Thierry Labbé (INRA Biogeco, Bordeaux) visited AMAP last 12-14 August to prepare and begin a fully integrated ForestGales library in Capsis. This new connection will make it easier to run ForestGales risk assessment simulations on Capsis scenarios. (fc - 20.8.2013)

The CAQSIS 2013 meeting took place last 8-10 April in Prenovel (Jura), coupling like every year the Capsis and CAQ network annual meetings. More than 30 people from France, Germany, Switzerland and Belgium attended the meeting, including forest managers from ONF R&D division and CNPF/IDF. The presentations are now available on the documentation pages (fr). (fc - 17.4.2013)

Several projects have been started for the last few months, including ForEnerChips (INRA Lerfob Nancy), Fompine (INRA Biogeco Bordeaux) and Forceps (CNRS CEFE Montpellier). See the projects page for more details. (fc - 17.4.2013)

The 2013 Capsis training session took place in Montpellier on 29-30 January 2013. Five participants from INRA, IRSTEA and the Canadian Forest Service attended this session. (fc - 1.2.2013)

The Capsis ONF 2012 release has been packaged by Christine Deleuze with the help of the Capsis modellers for distribution inside the ONF. This distribution contains 18 models. Feedback from the ONF users is expected to fix the bugs, improve the models, make configuration and ergonomy better. (fc - 21.12.2012)

The STANDFIRE project started in december 2012 by a kickoff conference call with all the partners from the USA and from INRA Avignon. The leader of this 2012-2015 project is Russell Parsons from USDA Forest Service, Missoula, Montana. The objective is to develop together a Decision Support System for spatially explicit 3D fuel treatment analysis at the stand level. (fc - 21.12.2012)

Mathieu Jonard (ELI-e, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) came to Montpellier for a week of work on his Heterofor model. The session focussed on using all the ellipsoidal-based crown shapes possibilities offered by the SamsaraLight library, adding different Leaf Area Density models, proposing a method to fill the gaps on his inventories and building scripts driven by command files. (fc - 28.11.2012)

Teresa Fonseca (UTAD, Vila Real, Portugal) visited AMAP for one week to work on the Modis Pinaster model. Several sub-models were adapted and new outputs about biomass, fuel and energy were added. (fc - 19.10.2012)

Capsis 4.2.3 is available, see the download section for a web demo release. Several details have been reviewed about the user interface (including fewer and better project colors, new icon set, bigger toolbar). (fc - 3.10.2012)

After his initial visit in 2008, Robert Schneider (UQAR, Canada) came back to AMAP for a week to work on the spatialisation of his Jackpine model, based on the Crobas model by Anniki Makela (University of Helsinki, Finland). (fc - 5.7.2012)

A working session around the SamsaraLight radiative model took place in Grenoble (18-21 June 2012). Mathieu Jonard, Gauthier Ligot, Benoit Courbaud and Francois de Coligny worked together to provide more flexible crown descriptions and a more generic way to give the incoming incident radiation. (fc - 22.6.2012)

The 14th Capsis meeting took place in Nogent sur Vernisson last April 2-4 2012, joint with the 15th CAQ meeting. See the reports (fr) on the documentation page. (fc - 18.4.2012)

Florian Delerue (INRA TCEM Bordeaux) spent a week in AMAP to start the integration of his Woudyfor model in Capsis. (fc - 23.3.2012)

Sergio de Miguel (University of Eastern Finland) came visiting the AMAP lab for the whole month of February to integrate several growth models and an optimization tool in a Capsis Optimist project. (fc - 8.2.2012)

Mathieu Jonard and Francois Herman (UCL, Louvain, Belgium) attended the 24-25 January Capsis training and then stayed for a two days starting stage on their Heterofor project. (fc - 27.1.2012)

Gauthier Ligot and Samuel Quevauvillers (ULG, Gembloux, Belgium) visited the Capsis team for a whole week (16-20 January) to work on the Gymnos model, its integration in the forest level Simmem simulator and some other topics about wood quality and economics. (fc - 26.1.2012)

A reference paper about Capsis was published in the Annals of Forest Science international journal, see the Publications page for more details. (fc - 5.1.2012)

The next Capsis training session will take place in Montpellier next January 24-25th 2012. 8 candidate modellers have already registered. (fc - 23.11.2011)

A technical meeting about the ModisPinaster model was organized in Vila Real (Portugal) by Teresa F. Fonseca on 19th October 2011 for 25 engineers, technicians and members of associations of the forestry field. F. de Coligny was kindly invited for a week of work in Portugal on this occasion. (fc - 2.11.2011)

Teresa F. Fonseca (UTAD, Vila Real, Portugal) came back to Montpellier after her initial coming in 2009. She came for a 2 weeks visit to work on her ModisPinaster model: more accurate equations calculated from new field data, thinning with the Wilson factor or the Stand density index, better mortality assessment. (fc - 11.5.2011)

The Capsis annual meeting (april 4-6th 2011) took place in Avignon. It was coupled this year with the CAQ annual meeting (“le réseau des chercheurs et développeurs francophones impliqués dans la modélisation forêt-bois”). More than 50 participants from INRA, Cemagref, IRD, Cirad, ONF, IFN, ITK attended the meeting. The next CAQ-Capsis coupled meeting will be organized next year in april in Nogent sur Vernisson. The report (fr). (fc - 7.4.2011)

A review page listing the intervention methods available in Capsis was added on the documentation page (section 2.8). (fc - 7.4.2011)

Three new projects have been started since the beginning of the year: Simmem is a multi-forests model developed by the Cemagref in the frame of the Forgeco ANR project, Douglas is the first model from Belgium in Capsis (Université de Liège Gembloux) and Abccedrus is a colonization model by a team of INRA-BioSP - Avignon (see the projects page for details). (fc - 29.3.2011)

Fuel manager modules have been used to simulate Aleppo pine fuel of 558 experimental plots from French National Inventory. Thinning scenarios with the constraint of a minimum distance between crown (fire prevention) varying between 1 and 10 m were computed. These simulations were used to develop simple relationships between stand parameters and fuel characteristics for French forest service. This work will be presented at the Medpine4 conference in Avignon in June 2011. (fp - 21.01.2011)

Artemis and Succes modules have been officially released on Nov 9th, 2010. The two modules are being used on an operational basis by the Forester in Chief Office in the Province of Québec, CANADA, for calculating the annual allowable cut volumes on public lands. (mf - 17.01.2011)

New and up to date backup slides in english for the Java and Capsis training are available on the documentation page. They will be used for the Capsis training next week. (fc - 9.12.2010)

New documents have been added on the Documentation page to help the Capsis modellers build extensions by themselves: in particular an intervention tool. (fc - 8.12.2010)

The next Capsis training is planned for next december, 14-15 in Montpellier. The first day will be a fast Java introduction and the second day a complete Capsis training course with concrete exercises to learn about integrating a new module in the platform. (fc - 3.12.2010)

Capsis is currently being re-engineered to become fully multi-application. The capsis kernel is refactored to remove unneeded dependencies and some improvements are under progress (scripts in other applications, better options management, clearer starting process, svn revision added to app version and written with the projects, a new PathManager to get the main directories names…). (fc - 24.9.2010)

The next annual Capsis meeting will take place in Montpellier next June 22nd. A two day Capsis working session will follow for the Capsis Modellers wishing to work on their projects with the help of the developers: june 23rd and 24th. (fc - 26.5.2010)

Five modellers attended the Capsis working session in Nancy (March 30-31, April 1st). They worked on the new architecture, tests, automations and scripts. (fc - 1.4.2010)

The third Capsis working session took place this week in Montpellier (15th, 16th, 17th of December). The first day was a training session to the Java language.

Xiangdong Lei from from the Chinese academy of forestry (CAF) and Samuel Dufour integrated the LSFMGM model in Capsis. (sdk - 23.11.2009)

The second Capsis working session took place this week in Avignon (29-30.9 and 1.10). Ten Capsis modellers attended this meeting and could get help from the Capsis developpers on their model implementation. (fc - 2.10.2009)

Teresa F. Fonseca (UTAD, Vila Real, Portugal) presented a synopsis of the ModisPinaster model and its implementation in Capsis platform at the University of Helsinki (Finland), 17-18 September 2009, under the 3rd Workshop and MC Meeting of the Cost Action FP0603. A large audience of forest modellers from the European Countries was present. (tf - 28.09.2009)

Xiangdong Lei and Hong Guo from the Chinese academy of forestry (CAF) came to visit the CAPSIS team in Montpellier. (xd - 10.09.2009)

The report of the 11th Capsis meeting is available on the documentation page (scroll down to the section: “4. Reports of Capsis annual meetings”). (fc - 25.6.2009)

Nine modellers attended the first Capsis working session (May, 18-20th) in Montpellier. They saw specific presentations about the concerns they choosed and they could work on their models with the help of the Capsis developpers. Particular topics that were discussed: “Good options for developping”, “Viewing in 2D and 3D”, “Tests” and “Script mode”. (fc - 25.5.2009)

A working session for Capsis modellers who want to improve their skills in developing is planned next May 18-20 in Montpellier. (fc - 5.5.2009)

Mathieu Fortin (MNRF - Québec) came few days to Montpellier last april to work together on the Artemis model (growth of the Québec forests) he developed with Jean-Francois Lavoie. (fc - 5.5.2009)

The migration of Capsis from CVS to the SVN version system was completed. The Capsis Modellers can get their new local copy of Capsis (the one to work inside from now on) from SVN with the help of the SVN documentation. The CVS server was disconnected: no futher work is possible on the CVS local copies. (fc - 30.1.2009)

New presentations have been added in the Documention page to be used by the members of the project in their own presentations. They can be used directly in .pdf format and are also available in .ppt or .odp for adaptation. (fc - 30.1.2009)

The Capsis website has been transfered to a wiki (allowing online page edition). Some page may be still missing but, it should be corrected shortly (sdk - 21.11.2008)

Samuel Dufour (INRA) has joined AMAP and the Capsis team as a second permanent developer. He will take care of the project management tools, but also of design, development, support and progressively all the usual tasks concerning Capsis (fc - 3.11.2008)

RReShar is a new project concerning regeneration in Capsis. It was linked with the new SamsaraLight library for reusing the radiative balance method in the Samsara project. See models. (fc - 3.10.2008)

Capsis now contains several 3D tools based on the Sketch library. This library was initialy built for the FireParadox project. The Sketch framework makes it possible to draw various sketch scenes and objects. Here: a scene of the Samsara model by Benoit Courbaud (Cemagref). (fc - 3.10.2008)

The last Capsis meeting has taken place in Montpellier on June 17th. (fc - 3.10.2008)

Robert Schneider (UQAM) spent two weeks in Montpellier (19-30 May). We integrated within Capsis his JackPine model based on the Crobas / PipeQual model by Annikki Makela (University of Helsinki, Finland). JackPine was ported from the MatLab environment. (fc - 2.6.2008)

The Capsis modellers 2008 training session took place in Montpellier on February, 13-14 with 10 trainee modellers. See documentation. (fc - 15.02.2008)